[ExI] ai is the easy road

[John Clark]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2026 at 3:37 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

*> I am sorry to say, but slaughtering each other is functional and
> rational from the viewpoint of genes.*



*That's an oversimplification. Genes** "want" to get into the next
generation, and slaughtering everybody would not be a good strategy for
doing that. Cooperation is just as an important a strategy as aggression,
and humans are FAR more peaceful than our nearest genetic cousins,
chimpanzees; and we are also FAR more successful from a gene's point of
view.  We may even be more peaceful than Neanderthals were because like
chimpanzees there is evidence that there social groups didn't get larger
than a few dozen, but with humans it typically runs into the millions. *

* John K Clark *


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